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(Encyclopedia) Brooke, Sir Charles Anthony Johnson: see Brooke, Sir James. ...

(Encyclopedia) Saint Thomas, island (2010 pop. 51,634), 32 sq mi (83 sq km), one of the U.S. Virgin Islands, West Indies. Charlotte Amalie, the capital of the U.S. Virgin Islands, and a campus of the Univ. of the Vi...

(Encyclopedia) Lochiel, Sir Ewen Cameron of: see Cameron of Lochiel, Sir Ewen. ...

(Encyclopedia) Abdubakar Tafawa Balewa, Alhaji Sir: see Balewa, Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa. ...

(Encyclopedia) Flinders Petrie, Sir William Matthew: see Petrie, Sir William Matthew Flinders. ...

(Encyclopedia) Sankara, Thomas 1948–87, president (1983–87) of Burkina Faso. Thomas Sankara, sometimes referred to as the African Che Guevara, was an activist, mil...

(Encyclopedia) Alexander, Sir William, d. 1640: see Stirling, William Alexander, earl of. ...

(Encyclopedia) Lawes, Sir John Bennet, 1814–1900, English agriculturist. He founded the famous experimental farm at Rothamsted, where, with the English chemist Sir J. H. Gilbert, he experimented with plants and an...

(Encyclopedia) Grey, Sir Edward: see Grey of Fallodon, Edward Grey, 1st Viscount. ...

(Encyclopedia) Manning, William Thomas, 1866–1949, American Episcopal bishop of New York, b. England, received his collegiate and theological training at the Univ. of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. Ordained a priest (1...